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344. Can Stablecoins Save the Dollar?

Saifedean examines whether growing stablecoin demand can reduce price inflation & help US fiscal solvency. He focuses on often-overlooked trade-offs: lost seigniorage, displaced long-term Treasury demand & bank credit, & more fragile short-term funding & rollover risk.
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  • Marina Azzimonti and Vincenzo Quadrini — Digital Assets and the Exorbitant Dollar Privilege
  • Marina Azzimonti and Vincenzo Quadrini — Digital Economy, Stablecoins, and the Global Financial System
  • Stephen Miran — A Global Stablecoin Glut: Implications for Monetary Policy
  • Rashad Ahmed and Iñaki Aldasoro — Stablecoins and Safe Asset Prices
  • Congressional Budget Office — How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2026 to 2036
  • Saifedean Ammous — Bitcoin & Tether: Drinking the Dollar Milkshake — Bitcoin 2025
  • Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee — Report to the Secretary of the Treasury
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    347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

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    347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture
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    About this episode.

    The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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    Saifedean revisits The Bitcoin Standard almost ten years after writing it. The first lecture covers the prologue: Bitcoin’s origins, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.

    Watch the lecture and follow the series on The Bitcoin Standard Course page.